John Harris

Standard Name: Harris, John

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Literary responses	Hélène Barcynska	John Harris in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography sums up her fiction, under whichever pen-name, as a dependable product, stronger on characterization than on plot, with some freshness of detail and a sunny vision...
Publishing	Christian Isobel Johnstone	CIJ wrote a number of non-fiction books for children. She launched her Aunt Jane persona with The Wars of the Jews, 1823 (reprinted 1853), selected from the work of Josephus . She delineated the...
Publishing	Sophia Lee	SL had the idea for it while in debtors' prison with her father . Contemporary rumour said she had written it to get him out of prison; but at that time she apparently made no...

Timeline

1704

John Harris published Lexicon Technicum, or An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. This was an early example (though not quite the first) of the alphabetically-arranged reference book in English.

Stavisky, Aaron. “Review of Pat Rogers, The Samuel Johnson DictionaryThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.

, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 302-28.

302

English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1728

Ephraim Chambers attempted in his Cyclopaedia to offer a digest of all existing modern knowledge.

Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

190

London Magazine. C. Ackers.

(November 1738): 582

Stavisky, Aaron. “Review of Pat Rogers, The Samuel Johnson DictionaryThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.

, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 302-28.

302

OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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